If you weren't at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con and you love Game of Thrones, you're in luck: you can now watch the full, hour-long panel on YouTube. If you're not all caught up on the show, probably best you don't (h/t Morning After/Gawker).
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If you weren't at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con and you love Game of Thrones, you're in luck: you can now watch the full, hour-long panel on YouTube. If you're not all caught up on the show, probably best you don't (h/t Morning After/Gawker).
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"So, what'd you think?" said the man who had gotten me into the cockpit of a Pacific Rim Jaeger.
I grinned. "Great! But I was a little disappointed that I didn't fall or get eaten."
He looked at me quizzically. "Having a Kaiju punch into the cockpit and grab your partner wasn't enough?"
"Yeah, I mean, it was cool. But it didn't actually eat me, you know? I was really hoping for it."
The Oculus Rift has put me through a lot. I've skydived, been beheaded, flown spacecraft, slid in gondolas past giant floating heads. I want to try everything. Until my development kit comes next month, and probably even after that, the best place to do so is …
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You can't get into Hall H every day. For the final installment of our animated series, I set off for Comic-Con's biggest venue in search of new adventures. But the line for the day's biggest and best panels was more than a mile long, and I abandoned all hope early on. Fortunately Thunder Levin, the screenwriter of Sharknado and this week's Sharknado 2, was around to talk to me about upping the ante, crazy filming conditions, and what happened when he introduced himself to Richard Dreyfuss.
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San Diego Comic-Con is an impossible place, because everything that's terrible about it is basically mitigated by everything wonderful about it. The annual gathering brings together tens of thousands of geeks to celebrate their fandom as movie studios market upcoming blockbusters with exclusive trailers and clips. On one hand you spend incalculable amounts of time in line; on the other, you meet George R.R. Martin. There is nothing easy or relaxing about the biggest event in all of fandom; everything feels more or less like a fight. But then you win a few fights, like securing a seat inside Hall H for the day, and by the end you feel like yo …
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Tens of thousands of people descend on San Diego for Comic-Con each year, making it the perfect place for cosplayers to show off some of their best outfits. It's hard not to be almost-constantly wowed by the costume work while walking around the convention floor, but some outfits stood well above the rest in terms of accuracy, attention to detail, or just sheer awesomeness.
Want to know our favorite cosplayers of this year's con? We asked a number of them to pose for us, and you can take a look at their outfits below.
Even after this week's Comic-Con panel, we still don't know much about Christopher Nolan's upcoming film Interstellar. Will there be wormholes? Check. An internal emotional struggle for our main protagonist, a pilot played by Matthew McConaughey? Check, check, check. You can now watch the 15-minute panel yourself, with Nolan and his lead star reportedly making their first-ever appearance at Comic-Con. Two words of caution, however: one, the new footage that bookended the panel isn't included in the video. Two, we're still experiencing The Full McConaughey™ - it takes all but a minute for him to make his "alright alright alright" quip. Inters …
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Sin City: A Dame to Kill For comes out in a little under a month, and by now we're well aware of how stylish and downright bloody it's meant to be. But things can always get bloodier. In this latest spot that first debuted at Comic-Con this weekend, directors Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller both make short appearances as men dying slowly in an alley. "This rotten town," Miller croaks. "It slows everybody it touches." After that, it's pure carnage as we see plenty of returning faces, new stars… and even Lady Gaga as a waitress. We'll see more when it hits theaters on August 22nd.
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On October 7th, author James Frey will release a novel about the apocalypse. It will hold an elaborate code, directing readers towards a key hidden somewhere in the real world. That key will open a case containing $500,000 in gold.
This is the premise of Endgame: The Calling, which is not so much a book as a sweeping attempt at a story that will colonize all conceivable media. Fox is developing a movie concurrently, and Google's Niantic Labs, responsible for alternate-reality game Ingress, is making a new game based on the plot. A D&D dungeon master has been conscripted to maintain social media accounts for the characters, which he has done …
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Ever the controversial figure, Frank Miller is nevertheless one of the greats. As one of many notable comics creators who shot to prominence in the 1980s and '90s, Miller's work on such characters as Batman and Daredevil helped define a generation of comic readers. But he's seen his share of deserved criticism over the course of his career - graphic novels like Sin City and 300, while stylish and influential, have been derided for their treatment of women and people of color, and the more recent Holy Terror was shellacked by readers and comic writers alike for its unabashedly propagandistic attack on Islam.
Miller presses on, critics be dam …
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Just about all of the biggest movies and TV shows for the year or so ahead descended on San Diego over the weekend for the 2014 Comic-Con, unleashing a whirlwind of news, trailers, and teases for what's to come. So much happens that it's easy - if not next to impossible - not to miss some, so below we've rounded up everything you need to know, watch, and read to take in this year's convention.
Marvel didn't have to do much to be the star of this year's Comic-Con… and, unfortunately, it really didn't. Fans were treated to a first look at Avengers: Age of Ultron, but everyone else just got two new movie announcement …